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Without answers: 3 decades later, family of missing woman continue the search
Posted: 05/24/2010 12:00:00 AM MDT
EL PASO -- Elizabeth Allen, mother, businesswoman, victim of foul play, vanished 30 years ago.
Now her friends and relatives, including her aging sister, hope to discover what happened to her before their own lives end.
Allen's family reported her missing on Jan. 21, 1980, one day after they last
saw or heard from her. She did not leave a note or tell anyone she was leaving town.
There was no trace of a struggle in her second-floor West Side apartment. Police in San Bernardino, Calif., found her white 1971 Ford Thunderbird Classic on Jan. 24, and called Allen's family after the car was towed the next day.
Police believe someone abducted Allen, 55, but no witnesses have come forward to confirm detectives' suspicions.
Allen's disappearance attracted publicity weeks later and again in 1983, when convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to murdering Allen.
However, El Paso police said, no proof exists to tie Lucas to Allen's disappearance.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15148021?source=most_viewed
Posted: 05/24/2010 12:00:00 AM MDT
EL PASO -- Elizabeth Allen, mother, businesswoman, victim of foul play, vanished 30 years ago.
Now her friends and relatives, including her aging sister, hope to discover what happened to her before their own lives end.
Allen's family reported her missing on Jan. 21, 1980, one day after they last
saw or heard from her. She did not leave a note or tell anyone she was leaving town.
There was no trace of a struggle in her second-floor West Side apartment. Police in San Bernardino, Calif., found her white 1971 Ford Thunderbird Classic on Jan. 24, and called Allen's family after the car was towed the next day.
Police believe someone abducted Allen, 55, but no witnesses have come forward to confirm detectives' suspicions.
Allen's disappearance attracted publicity weeks later and again in 1983, when convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to murdering Allen.
However, El Paso police said, no proof exists to tie Lucas to Allen's disappearance.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15148021?source=most_viewed